Robert McDonald

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Erwin P Nemmers Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at The Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University

Robert McDonald is Erwin P. Nemmers Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at The Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, where he has served as a faculty member since 1984. His areas of research include corporate finance, taxation, derivatives, and applications of option pricing theory to corporate investments.

McDonald is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and also served as past director of the American Finance Association. He earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of North Carolina and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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